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LinuxCon: Clay Shirky on collaborationLinuxCon: Clay Shirky on collaborationPosted Aug 25, 2011 14:27 UTC (Thu) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848)Parent article: LinuxCon: Clay Shirky on collaboration
The quantity of small (but significant) mistakes in his telling of histories to me really sums up a lot of Shirky's work, this included; it sounds convincing to a relatively unfamiliar outsider, but is actually pretty vague in its conclusions, and lacking a real base of research from which to make them.
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LinuxCon: Clay Shirky on collaboration Posted Aug 25, 2011 15:24 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]
Yeah, it's frustrating and annoying. But at the same time, he does make connections between things that are at least worth thinking about and exploring. It kinda looks like he credits the actors he's describing with making those same connections consciously, rather than having their own independent reasons for what they do.
The outsider doesn't really care about Linus's motivations (which Shirky seems to get wrong at every step of the way), but may be interested in the results of his decisions. That outsider may then consider making similar sorts of decisions.
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